A pro-Syrian government group appeared to attack more than 10 websites, including Twitter, the New York Times and HuffingtonPost.com, said security researchers citing digital evidence.

The attacks by the Syrian Electronic Army, a group of hackers that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, come as the U.S. is considering action against Syria. In the past, the group has taken action against media organizations and websites it believes are sympathetic to Syrian rebels.

The websites, including the Huffington Post’s U.K. website, appeared to be compromised Tuesday by the group, said a security researcher who had seen digital evidence. HuffingtonPost confirmed the attack and said there was a “minimal disruption of service.”

The hackers, meantime, repeatedly claimed they had taken over Twitter’s Internet address, though they appeared to be unsuccessful.

The social media site never appeared to lose service. (The hackers used their own Twitter account to claim they had hacked the social-media website.) Read More »

Amazon.com’s main e-commerce site went down Monday afternoon for less than an hour, with multiple users on social-media services reporting error messages.

On its marketplace Twitter account, Amazon said it was “experiencing an issue that is causing problems” on Amazon.com and its site for sellers. Users first started noting the site’s problems at around 2:45 p.m. Eastern time and the site appeared to be up and running less than an hour later. Read More »